Socioeconomic Status, Definition

Baker, Elizabeth

doi:10.1002/9781118410868.wbehibs395

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“…SES is a broad construct that represents the relative ranking of a person or group's social and economic resources compared to others in their social system. A wide variety of factors are used as rough indicators of SES, but the most common SES indicators are income, education, and occupational prestige (see Baker, ). Researchers sometimes investigate the correlates of each of these indicators individually and other times combine multiple indicators into a single composite index of overall SES (e.g., Blakemore, Strazdins, & Gibbings, ).…”

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Family and neighborhood socioeconomic status and temperament development from childhood to adolescence

Strickhouser

Sutin

2019

Journal of Personality

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Objective: Children differ in their temperament and these differences predict consequential outcomes, including mental health, peer relations, substance use, academic performance, and adult personality. Additionally, children's temperament develops over time in response to environmental factors, such as the socioeconomic status (SES) of their family and the neighborhood in which they are raised. However, there has been lack on research on the relation between neighborhood SES and the development of temperament or personality. Method: Using data from two cohorts of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC; N = 9,217) that followed children from 4 to 15 years old, the present analyses examined whether parent income, parent education, and neighborhood disadvantage were associated with three child temperament traits that are precursors to Five-Factor Model (FFM) adult personality traits. Results: Longitudinal hierarchical linear models (HLM) generally found that children with lower neighborhood SES or family SES tended to have lower sociability, higher reactivity, and lower persistence and these associations did not decrease over time.Conclusions: This research demonstrates that both the neighborhood and the family SES in childhood are important for the development of temperament across childhood and adolescence. K E Y W O R D Schildren, longitudinal, personality, socioeconomic status, temperament

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Family and neighborhood socioeconomic status and temperament development from childhood to adolescence

Strickhouser

Sutin

2019

Journal of Personality

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“…Following common operational de nitions [38], SES was assessed among the dimensions of education and household income. Education level was assessed through a seven-point scale with the response categories of 'less than high school diploma', 'high school degree', 'some college credit, no degree', associate degree', 'bachelor's degree', 'master's degree' and 'doctorate'.…”

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Personal Social Capital and Self-Rated Health among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Cross-sectional Study Exploring the Roles of Leisure-Time Physical Activity and Socioeconomic Status

Kim

Schneider

Faß

et al. 2020

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Background: Personal social capital, which refers to the scope and quality of an individual’s social networks within a community, has received increasing attention as a potential sociological factor associated with better individual health; yet, the mechanism relating social capital to health is still not fully understood. This study examined the associations between social capital and self-rated health while exploring the roles of leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) and socioeconomic status (SES) among middle-aged and older adults.Methods: Cross-sectional data were collected from 662 middle-aged and older adults (Mean age: 58.11 ± 10.59 years old) using the Qualtrics survey panel. Personal Social Capital Scale was used to measure bonding and bridging social capital and the International Physical Activity Questionnaire was used to assess LTPA levels. SES was assessed by education and household income levels. Self-rated health was assessed using a single item, by which the participants were categorized into the two groups, having ‘good’ vs. ‘not good’ self-rated health. A series of univariate and multivariate logistic regression models were established to examine the independent and adjusted associations of social capital with self-rated health and to test mediating and moderating roles of LTPA and SES, respectively.Results: Bonding and bridging social capital were positively associated with self-rated health (Odds ratios = 1.11 and 1.09; P’s < .05, respectively), independent of LTPA that was also significantly associated with greater self-rated health (P-for-linear trends = .007). After adjusting SES, the associations of social capital were significantly attenuated and there was a significant interaction effect by household income (P-for-interaction = .012). Follow-up analyses stratified by household income showed that beneficial associations of social capital with self-rated health were more apparent among the people with low and high levels of household income; yet, LTPA was the stronger predictor of self-rated health among those in the middle class of household income.Conclusions: Findings suggest that both social capital and LTPA are associated with better self-rated health; yet, these associations vary by SES. The health policymakers should address both social capital and PA for enhancing perceived health among aging populations but may need to consider varying SES backgrounds.

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“…Socioeconomic status (SES) is an important composite index used to measure the social standing of an individual or groups of individuals along socially constructed group identities or along geographic locations (Baker, 2014). It is typically composed of an individual's education, income, and occupation Education can be measured by a number of formal schooling years completed or along a Likert scale.…”

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Using Crowdsourcing to Identify a Proxy of Socio-economic Status

Rajput

Sarirete

Desouky

2019

Research &Amp; Innovation Forum 2019

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Social Media provides researchers with an unprecedented opportunity to gain insight into various facets of human life. Health practitioners put a great emphasis on pinpointing socioeconomic status (SES) of individuals as they can use to it to predict certain diseases. Crowdsourcing is a term coined that entails gathering intelligence from a user community online. In order to group the users online into communities, researchers have made use of hashtags that will cull the interest of a community of users. In this paper, we propose a mechanism to group a certain group of users based on their geographic background and build a corpus for such users. Specifically, we have looked at discussion forums for some vehicles where the site has established communities for different areas to air their grievances or sing the praises of the vehicle. From such a discussion, it was possible to glean the vocabulary that these group of users adheres to. We compared the corpus of different communities and noted the difference in the choice of language. This provided us with the groundwork for predicting the socio-economic status of such communities that can be particularly helpful to health practitioners and in turn used in smart cities to provide better services to the community members. More work is underway to take words and emojis out of vocablary(OOV) and assessing the average score as special cases.

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Socioeconomic Status, Definition

Cited by 175 publications

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Family and neighborhood socioeconomic status and temperament development from childhood to adolescence

Family and neighborhood socioeconomic status and temperament development from childhood to adolescence

Personal Social Capital and Self-Rated Health among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Cross-sectional Study Exploring the Roles of Leisure-Time Physical Activity and Socioeconomic Status

Using Crowdsourcing to Identify a Proxy of Socio-economic Status

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